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Mountain Heroes

Portraits of Adventure

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

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Mountain Heroes

Portraits of Adventure

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

A fascinating view of the personalities that make up the world of mountaineering, from world-famous explorers to native sherpas.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762776579

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9780762776573

Imagining the Arctic

Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

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Imagining the Arctic

Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.

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450

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786732467

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9781786732460

Imagining the Arctic

Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

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Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786722461

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Mountain Heroes

Portraits of Adventure

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

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Mountain Heroes

Portraits of Adventure

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

A fascinating view of the personalities that make up the world of mountaineering, from world-famous explorers to native sherpas.

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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

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Writing Welsh History

From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

By: Huw Pryce

The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.

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Oxford University Press

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0198746032

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9780198746034

Rhys Davies

By: Huw Edwin Osborne

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Rhys Davies

By: Huw Edwin Osborne

Davies was the holder of a complex identity: he was a gay man who grew up as a shopkeeper's son in the Rhondda who left Wales to write about his homeland in England. This book unravels a national experience that is deeply bound up in complex negotiations of class, sexuality, and gender and follows a career that was predicted to be that of "the representative Welshman". The book is divided into three sections: the first begins with Davies’s childhood in Blaenclydach and the ways in which his memories of his childhood reinforce continuing themes in his stories and novels; the second will place Davies in literary London and address Davies’s struggle to enter the privileged circles of literary production, circulation, and reception; the final section considers the established Davies of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

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160

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University of Wales Press

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0708322425

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9780708322420

The Red & The White

A History of England vs Wales Rugby

By: Huw Richards

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The Red & The White

A History of England vs Wales Rugby

By: Huw Richards

In every Five Nations D and now Six Nations Ð season the real showdown is always that between England and Wales: Wales with its history of playing the finest rugby of all the home nations, England with its enviable strength in depth and forward muscle. Whether in the vast bowl of Twickenham or the cauldron of the Millennium Stadium every year is a sell-out long in advance. Over the years there have been innumerable epic encounters. In the seventies Wales dominated with Barry John, Gareth Edwards at scrum-half and JPR Williams at full back, but England had the blistering running of David Duckham with his blond hair flying. The eighties and nineties saw some incendiary encounters with Paul Ringer and Wade Dooley both involved in high-profile punch-ups, but also England re-establishing dominance and Bill Beaumont and then Will Carling. But the decade ended at Wembley with Scott GibbsÕs dramatic last-minute swallow-dive to snatch victory for Wales. More recently Wales have come back with new stars like Gavin Henson and Shane Williams after years of powerhouse England forward play had held sway. Huw Richards has talked to many veterans of these matches, as well as to present players and administrators to tells the whole history of Wales v England at rugby: a contest that is a clash of cultures and histories as well as a titanic sporting occasion. Huw Richards is rugby correspondent of the Financial Times.

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Aurum

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178131358X

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9781781313589

Croc-a-doodle-doo!

By: Huw Lewis Jones

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Croc-a-doodle-doo!

By: Huw Lewis Jones

Look out, here comes trouble! Croc has stopped at Old MacDonald's farm for a snack... E-I-E-I-O Uh-oh! Providing a unique, alternative spin on a familiar song, this delightfully silly story is contemporary, quirky and playful – kids will love to follow Croc’s antics and sing along with him as he roams Old MacDonald's farm A bright, bold and bonkers reimagining of the familiar song Old MacDonald Had a Farm, starring a cheeky crocodile, this book will have children and adults singing along and laughing out loud as they follow along with this hilarious story.

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Happy Yak

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071128282X

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9780711282827

Croc o’Clock

By: Huw Lewis Jones

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Croc o’Clock

By: Huw Lewis Jones

The world’s largest crocodile likes to eat… but feeding time is getting out of control. As the zoo clock ticks towards midnight, Croc is growing bigger and bigger… 5 DONUT RINGS…! 4 pumpkin pies 3 french fries 2 cups of tea and a mountain of macaroni. A bright, bold, and bonkers reimagining of the familiar festive song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, starring a very hungry crocodile.

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Happy Yak

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0711264384

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9780711264380

Blue Badger and the Big Breakfast

By: Huw Lewis Jones

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Blue Badger and the Big Breakfast

By: Huw Lewis Jones

In Blue Badger & The Big Breakfast, we rejoin Badger, who is no longer feeling sad and is enjoying a big blueberry breakfast. It also looks like Badger might have eaten Dog's favourite blue ball by mistake... but all is not lost!

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Blue Badger

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0711267553

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9780711267558

A Quokka for the Queen

By: Huw Lewis Jones

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A Quokka for the Queen

By: Huw Lewis Jones

This hilarious picture book tells the story of when the Queen gets a Quokka all the way from Australia for her birthday, and this small new arrival helps her discover the joy of giving gifts! It's the Queen's birthday and the last gift to arrive has come all the way from Australia. They say good things come in small packages! Well this party is about to get wild... it's a Quokka for the the Queen! The Quokka quickly makes an impression and the Queen decides to do things differently – with the help of Quokka she decides she will give the presents. Soon they are creating an elaborate gift list for everyone they can think of: “What shall we give the chambermaid?” asked the Queen. “A chihuahua for the chambermaid,” said the Quokka. “A chihuahua for the chambermaid, and chipmunks for the chef.” “Charming,” said the Queen. But what present will the Queen give to Quokka? This incredibly funny and rather silly story is full of the joy of giving presents and making people happy! The text's witty alliteration coupled with an array of lively characters will amuse readers big and small... and even royalty!

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Happy Yak

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0711267960

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Blue Badger

By: Huw Lewis Jones

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Blue Badger

By: Huw Lewis Jones

Featuring beautiful, emotive illustrations, this is the first story in a series of picture books about a befuddled, lovable Badger and his search for happiness, friends, and love. Who am I? White and black. Day and night. Badger doesn’t feel quite right… …and to make matters worse, he now has a blue bottom. Badger is feeling sad. He can’t sleep. He asks the other animals one by one: “Am I white and black, or black and white?” Can he find an answer? Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? Can he find a friend? He speaks to several other animals, from zebra to panda to penguin to skunk, as he tries to find out who he is, but along his journey he discovers that it doesn't matter whether he is black or white, just as long as he is kind. Featuring wry wit, deadpan humour and a heartwarming ending, Blue Badger will endear himself to readers big and small, while touching gently on themes of sadness and identity.

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0711267545

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Face to Face

Polar Portraits

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

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Face to Face

Polar Portraits

By: Huw Lewis-Jones

A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, Face to Face brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, alongside cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley. The first book to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography, Face to Face is a unique project of unsurpassed quality. Face to Face features the very first polar photographs, the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book, and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye. Alongside fifty of the world’s finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collections are fifty modern-day images by leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today. In addition to this remarkable collection will be a foreword written by respected adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, two fascinating essays examining polar photography ‘then’ and ‘now’ by polar historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; and an afterword by the best-selling author Hugh Brody. Polar Portraits is the first volume in the Face to Face series. Companion volumes include Ocean Portraits (9781844861248) and Mountain Heroes (9781844861392).

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